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The attorneys in Dean & Fulkerson’s Labor and Employment Law Practice Group recognize that all employers, whether small, medium or large, must comply with a myriad of federal and state law and regulatory enactments in the context of the labor and employment environment. These include: (1) the Americans With Disabilities […]

The February, 2009 stimulus included the Health Information technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The HITECH Act imposed significant new compliance obligations on employers by expanding the HIPAA privacy and security requirements which apply to group health plans and other “covered entities”. Some of these new requirements are […]

Article Originally Published: February 2008 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. Quiz time. Here are your facts: Bob Smith has been an employee-driver for Old Job Cartage for a couple […]

Article Originally Published: August 2007 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. On a bad day for your company, a Special Agent from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has arrived […]

Article Originally Published: November 2006 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. “It is the difference between telling a child that she may eat a cookie anywhere she chooses so long […]

Article Originally Published: February 2006 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. As a person managing a trucking operation, your role in truck accident or personal injury claims is limited, isn’t […]

Article Originally Published: November 2005 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. Following years of statutory enactments, action plans, and border modernization conferences, the era of electronically controlled border crossing for goods […]

Article Originally Published: August 2005 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. The misload has been a disputed issue on overweight tickets for years. Current statutory provisions authorize discretionary relief for “misloaded” units – […]

Article Originally Published: Spring 2005 The information contained in this article is not intended to be legal advice. Readers should not act or rely on this information without consulting an attorney. By some accounts, 70% of adult Americans do not have a will. If you at least have gone to the […]